7 thoughts on “SOPA Is Dead”

  1. They’ll just criminalize the creation or use of the workaround tool. The Internet is too much of a threat to the powers that be to be allowed to continue. I’m almost surprised it’s taken this long.

    (I *hope* I’m just being sarcastic, but I’m afraid I’m not.)

  2. It’s tough (though not impossible) to regulate a medium that was designed to be as decentralized as possible. The law still (if I am not mistaken) allows the government to block overseas addresses it finds “suspect”, but there isn’t much they can do (at the moment) to the peer to peer networks where the actual copyright material (sites like The Pirate Bay only have bit torrent files, not movies and music) is shared. The pirates, in other words, will simply keep moving the files around and let the P2P networks handle distribution of the actual material.

  3. If all the law does is block domain names, then it is completely useless. People who would go to the lengths of pirating movies/music/games off the interent hardly need domain names. I’d note other options, but I don’t care to help the entertainment industry.

  4. A lot of people seem to assume that this bill is just a draconian effort to combat piracy. As I understand the fallout if this bill passes, it would allow political speech to be shut down under bombardment of fallacious piracy charges, a far worse outcome. The technically minded among us may be able to route around the censorship, but many others won’t.

    1. That’s exactly it. It doesn’t really do what it is designed to do (the actual media files being pirated are handled P2P), but it does hand massive power over to the government that can/will be used for other purposes.

  5. the major malfunction of SOPA is that the biggest supporters of it are all corporations that made a ton of money distributing filesharing software, including Disney, CBS, NBC, Microsoft, among others. They created the problem now they want to be able to sue anybody who did what they told them to do.

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